Media outlets are sensationalizing and the NSA will make it through the turmoil. That’s the message in a letter sent by the NSA to those in and affiliated with the US spy organization. If it wasn’t so weird it might actually be heartwarming.

The National Security Agency sent out a letter to all of its employees and affiliates, including contractors, that could be printed and shared with family, friends and colleagues. It was intended to reassure them that the NSA is not really the abusive and unchecked spying agency engaged in illegal activity that someone reading former NSA contractor Edward Snowdenâ€™s disclosures might think it happens to be.